People in Congress are willing to shut down the entire government or to make it impossible for a Supreme Court nominee to… — George Packer Copy Share Image
We focus on that really repulsive minority of racists. But then there's a continuum that goes all the way to, you know,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Playing to resentment and using a lot of, you know, grand abstract phrases like make America great again is - it just… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow… — George Packer Copy Share Image
It's - the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighborhoods because of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Pay attention to other people's nightmares because they might be contagious. — George Packer Copy Share Image
All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton said we need to bring back vocational education in high school. We need to support community colleges. We need to… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I don't think they need to be nice to reporters, but the White House seems to imagine that releasing information is like a tap… — George Packer Copy Share Image
So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of reaching compromises… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called “the real America,”… — George Packer Copy Share Image
America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach. — George Packer Copy Share Image
'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those ideas in… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores… — George Packer Copy Share Image